Are “Shouting/speakers” Galleries The Answer?

[Jahulaye]

To rising crime, anger in our communities and general dismay at what’s happening around us?

Let’s take the speakers corner model as this idea came from the speakers corner thread and what a user said there and I quote

“ Every town should have a place where anyone can go and nobody listens so that they can say whatever they want and vent their frustrations. They feel better afterwards.”

So in essence a “shouting gallery”

Wow what a fantastic idea that would be and from a psychological perspective there’s no reason why it wouldn’t work.

If these places became the norm we could reteach kids that violence is never the answer and to go to these places to discuss or just vent.

This would be a great place for people with stress at work or in the home to just be able to talk to strangers or just scream and shout with them being “vented” could go back to work/home in a better frame of mind.

I think that many use the internet for this but it’s to my knowledge that if enraged online and you vent it online but remain online the anger still stays dormant until ignited again but to go out, vent and come back leaves you in a fresh, positive and optimistic frame of mind.

What are your thought on having a “shouting/speaking gallery nearby in all communities?

[Jahulaye]

I think crime would go down considerably tbh.

[andy-hughes]

We have a guy who sets up a loudspeaker system and a podium in our town square and he rabbits on about the bible, and what sinners we all are - no-one takes a blind bit of notice of him.

[ethandron]

Could be fun

[Jackdaw33]

I don't know what drugs you are on but they are certainly effective.

[Mamyalynne]

In space no one can hear you scream.

[jackthehat]

https://thumbsnap.com/uuTOt8T9

[ethandron]

I may go down to the sandstone cross in the middle of our village high street and do a bit of a vent, it's opposite the local butchers who do a lovely sausage and sell local gin, so that's two, or even three, birds with one stone.

[nailit]

//We have a guy who sets up a loudspeaker system and a podium in our town square and he rabbits on about the bible, and what sinners we all are - no-one takes a blind bit of notice of him.//

LOL andy, you beat me to it, was going to say the same thing. Are you referring to the guy with a beard and hat?

[rockyracoon]

When I was a little kid, we had 'Spouters Corner' where the local nuts would reel off whatever was bothering them, nobody took any notice. On a Sunday morning, the Salvation Army band plotted up there. Nobody took any notice of them, either.

[Old_Geezer]

Cannot they just use their back garden ?
I know that I do.

[Eleena]

;0)

[ethandron]

Can't use my back garden, the neighbours would complain. There again, am I bovvered??

[HansUrbancka]

I OFTEN WONDER IF FOLK LISTEN TO SOME OF MY POSTING IN ANSWERBANK.

Hans.

[Old_Geezer]

Some

[Kidas]

^^ HaHaHaHa ^^

Hans prove that the internet IS the shouty place the OP wants....

[HansUrbancka]

My apologies for shouting in my posting above. ^^

However, I feel better for having done so.

Hans.

[ethandron]

OH NO YOU DON'T
But I do

[tamborine]

O ye o ye o ye, ring a bell & vent away

[Jackdaw33]

It's not 'O ye' &c, it's 'Oyez', old French for 'listen'.

[tamborine]

Ours start with english but soon yell in forked tongue